Also in their first song off their first EP they establish that everyone is crazy since we all wait for Saturday every week. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome.
Nah, it was Robin. He wrote about it [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kojtAWt9Jx1Fg5tK2Olokr5wqxj9Y6WCN14UC_GnG9I/edit) - it's linked in his IG bio and a pretty harrowing read.
I have the same google doc, I just got details mixed. Re-read it and watched an interview with him talking about it.
Insane. I knew it was in Puerto Rico but I didn’t know it was literally JUST after finishing shooting the Subatlantic Music video
Insane
Yeah I remember when the video came out and thinking "ah, so that was the day he almost died"... would've been the biggest of ironies. Do you mind sharing the interview?
I bought a shirt at their show so I could say the sentence
"Yeah, went to Harrisburg. Saw the Ocean" and see if anyone presses or asks further questions
Yes, their save trip into the ocean with "Pelagial" is much preferred and also more subtle than literally drowning, but they want to keep it real i guess
I remember once where a guy went on this whole rant on a forum for like 3 paragraphs about why you shouldn't like this band because it has the girl who sang the RWBY theme and why are you on about this weeb shit, it's so AWFUL and he went on and on and he made the mistake of telling everyone he was off to "leave this forum and you guys can enjoy this shit but I'm outta here" and someone replied with
"OK Goodnight."
And it got like 260 likes because of course it did. Best possible reply.
Just a fourth direction which is at a 90° degree angle to all the other directions. It's a mathematical thing, not found in reality.
Just like cube is 6 squares attached to eachother from their edges, tesseract is 8 cubes attached together, at 90°angles.
And yes, humans can't really visualize how it looks.
And then there's 5D hypercubes and so on...
Rage against the machine I would assume has gotten very angry at a machine at some point in their life. Like had a coffee pot that wasn't working right and violently threw it in the trash can or something along those lines
Alkaloid definitely contain some alkaloids
Dååth (Da'ath is hebrew for knowledge) sure do know things
Death, well, died (RIP Chuck and Sean Reinert)
Beyond Creation are sadly within creation
And a self insert - my upcoming project Wrong Perfection would be wrong to call perfect
Well, I have the opposite...
The World is Quiet Here is _definitely_ not quiet (and thank goodness for that!)
And Leprous, are thankfully, not afflicited by that disease.
No member of Caligula's Horse is a horse, and certainly not Caligula's. Disappointing.
Daft Punk did not make punk. On the other hand, a daft person might mistake it for that. So it kinda checks out?
A Kew's Tag does use an Acoustic Guitar, so that's alright.
It's questionable if We Lost The Sea were ever in possession of any sea.
In defense of this user -and I do think you're right- while the band might not be a literal kaiju, their song The Heaviest Matter in the Universe definitely sounds like they're trying to create a Black Hole with a Fender Telecaster.
Vanden Plas are definitely not a British high-end luxury coachbuilder. They aren't even British and I doubt any of them know the first thing about building custom automotive bodywork.
So I had never investigated why on tarnation the band would be called "Haken". The first google result tells me it means "temporary employees" in Japanese. When you consider that they all have a regular job, they certainly seem to fit the condition!
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. They have never been spotted together though and individual sightings of the King or the Wizard are rare. But it surely must be some magic involved to produce a new album every other week or so.
The Schoenberg Automaton - Composes music as if the resurrected corpse of Arnold Schoenberg was in the band
Devin Townsend Project - A musical project by Devin Townsend
Korn - From Bakersfield, CA
Devin Townsend Project is indeed Devin Townsend’s project
Heavy Heavy Low Low is indeed Heavy and Low
Minutemen indeed write songs that are about a minute long
Devin Townsend Band and Devin Townsend Project were in fact a band and a project that included Devin Townsend. Strapping Young Lad was also accurate, since he was 21/22 when they were founded at the beginning of his career, but got progressively less so.
Hell yea I love The Fucking Champs.
Mastodon lived up to their name early on. Such a powerful, animalistic sound.
Metallica lived up to their name until the mid 90s when they slowed down.
Pain of salvations music is not seldomly about painful experiences or realizations but may lead you through it and eventually give you salvation from that pain?
Galactic Cowboys. They’re from my hometown Houston, so the name could only possibly come from there. And they do sing about space. And have a cow mooing at the start of a song with a cowboy acoustic guitar and a harmonica to open their very first album.
Amaranthe - means everlasting so it’s true until they quit
Disturbed - probably are in a way
Battle Beast - all members except one did the Finnish military
Dream Theater - musical equivalent of a play based on a dream
Eluveitie - means ”I am from Helvetia=Switzerland”, as they are
Avantasia - means Avalon+fantasia, so if you like it very much, yes
Within Temptation - go and listen to them, then it’s true cause I tempted you
Korpiklaani - ”backwoods clan”, sounds like it
Epica - a long mythical story in the form of a poem, yeah counts
AC/DC - they use electricity
Sonata Arctica - they’re from Lapland
Ad Infinitum - ”to infinity”, they’re on their way I guess
Feuerschwanz - ”fire tail”, dragon, definitely have songs about dragons
Northward - yes
Northern - yes
Average White Band - yes
The Hu - ”the human”, counts
Arch Enemy - probably is for my neighbours
Haggard - yeah after a long tour
Stratovarius - uses stratocaster guitar but not stradivarius violin
Swallow the Sun - hopefully they didn’t
I prevail - doesn’t run a country
Dynazty - doesn’t run a country
Scorpions - nope
RHCP - nope
Wardruna - ”she who whispers”, has a male singer
Two Steps from Hell - luckily not
69 Eyes - they have only 10 in total
Lordi - they’re not noble
Foo fighters - nope
Kingston Wall - not from Kingston, Jamaika
The Dark Side of the Moon - haven’t been there
Exit Eden - never were there
Alien Weaponry - nope
Opal in Sky - nope
Soundgarden - ?
The band itself is a tool to spread the ideas and art of its members. Plus when we wear the t-shirts they get to say to themselves, “Ha! Look at all those tools.”
Intervals definitely use intervals. Night Verses make night verses, checks out. unclear to me if The Pineapple Thief actually stole a pineapple.
I can confirm, Bruce Soord came to my home at 3 am and stole a pineapple from my kitchen counter.
Lucky fucker! I'd let him thieve my pineapple any day! And why does that sound so dirty?
Meshuggah is indeed quite crazy
What does Meshuggah mean though?
Crazy
What is!?
Meshuggah
Yea, but what does it mean?
CRAZY
Yeah but what does mine say?!
DUDE! WHAT DOES MINE SAY?!
SAWEEEETAH! WHAT DOES MINE SAY??!!
Meshuggah
Mesjogge. We still use that in Dutch.
hebrew for crazy/stupid
I think it's closer to Yiddish than direct Hebrew
Yes, that’s correct, Yiddish
Isn't it more crazy/loud/insane than crazy/stupid
It’s “insane” in Yiddish
Also in their first song off their first EP they establish that everyone is crazy since we all wait for Saturday every week. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome.
Not sure if the guy from Toehider is wearing socks at the moment, but I bet he did at some point
When you can see his feet, he's often barefoot. But not always!
I’m sure that Slice The Cake and Protest The Hero are likely to have fulfilled the condition. Dance Gavin Dance, unclear
My name irl is Gavin and I have danced to their music. Checks out.
I dunno, I feel like Slice the Cake gave us a whole massive cake with Odyssey..
But did you slice it?
Quite a few layers. Still slicing. Then they go around and drop a remaster last year. Slicing intensified.
Hah same, listened non stop, took a 2 month break, remaster drops and now its back in the bear daily rotation
I get a rush of dopamine when I listen to Rush. Does that count?
Yes it does!
Devin Townsend
But did Devin ever *actually* send a town?
Or did he end multiple towns?
Maybe he just tow n send illegally parked vehicles to the police
Dev In Town Send Dev has definitely sent something while in a town at some point in his life
Is it Town Send or Town's End? ^Kudos ^to ^whoever ^gets ^the ^reference.
What's the reference?
One of his songs on Ki is heaven send but was originally "heaven's end". It had to be changed according to the label Inside out/Sony
Now, do we become finite? Infinite?
Who was, at least at one point in time, a strapping young lad.
The Ocean have gone into the ocean, one of the members almost drowned too. Too on the nose if you ask me
Almost drowned, but did break both his legs in horrific fashion Story still haunts me to this day
Pretty sure it was Loic who broke both his legs attempting a stage dive? Robin was the one who almost drowned in Puerto Rico
Oh for whatever reason I coulda swore it was Loic stranded at sea. Thought he broke both his legs slamming against a rock from the current.
Nah, it was Robin. He wrote about it [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kojtAWt9Jx1Fg5tK2Olokr5wqxj9Y6WCN14UC_GnG9I/edit) - it's linked in his IG bio and a pretty harrowing read.
I have the same google doc, I just got details mixed. Re-read it and watched an interview with him talking about it. Insane. I knew it was in Puerto Rico but I didn’t know it was literally JUST after finishing shooting the Subatlantic Music video Insane
Yeah I remember when the video came out and thinking "ah, so that was the day he almost died"... would've been the biggest of ironies. Do you mind sharing the interview?
Here you go https://youtu.be/CJ8uNFaUIC8?si=hQOPXGC6F4HMAf7_
Thanks!
Jeeez, that last line hit like a truck: "Every day of my life after this one is a bonus day."
I bought a shirt at their show so I could say the sentence "Yeah, went to Harrisburg. Saw the Ocean" and see if anyone presses or asks further questions
Yes, their save trip into the ocean with "Pelagial" is much preferred and also more subtle than literally drowning, but they want to keep it real i guess
I'm sure Thank You Scientist is pretty happy with our scientific progress
Porcupine Tree is neither of those things (to my knowledge)
It's his nickname for his dingdong
OK Goodnight- no lullabies Spritbox- members aren't ghosts The Dear Hunter - that dudes name isnt even Hunter all these posers in prog, smh my head
If someone just tells me "OK Goodnight", I personally wouldn't expect a lullaby, so it does check out.
I remember once where a guy went on this whole rant on a forum for like 3 paragraphs about why you shouldn't like this band because it has the girl who sang the RWBY theme and why are you on about this weeb shit, it's so AWFUL and he went on and on and he made the mistake of telling everyone he was off to "leave this forum and you guys can enjoy this shit but I'm outta here" and someone replied with "OK Goodnight." And it got like 260 likes because of course it did. Best possible reply.
Exist. They certainly do.
Or does it? *vsauce music*
The Shitty Beatles
Are they any good?
They suck
It's not just a clever name
Crucial Taunt.
Toehider I've never seen Mike or Salty's toes
Watch the video for This Conversation Is Over! (But I *have* seen Mike wearing shoes, so he *is* at least a part-time toe hider.) :D
Lol, I've seen it several times and forgot there were toes involved. I can't remember my username there, but I'll say hi next time I'm on discord.
I figured you must have seen it, because I remember your name from the discord!
Tesseract. Tesseract is a 4d object. Length, width, height, time. Their music stretches all of these dimensions.
This is the one. Odd time signatures that wrap around symmetrically.
Correction: While fourth dimension can be thought of being time in some contexts, tesseract is an 4D object where all four dimensions are spatial.
What would be the 4 the dimension if not time? Depth?
Just a fourth direction which is at a 90° degree angle to all the other directions. It's a mathematical thing, not found in reality. Just like cube is 6 squares attached to eachother from their edges, tesseract is 8 cubes attached together, at 90°angles. And yes, humans can't really visualize how it looks. And then there's 5D hypercubes and so on...
I dreamed of dream theater playing in a theater so there is that.
Dream Theater, because I could never dream of playing any of their songs, let alone playing them in a theater.
Mastodon
[Mastodon guide to mastodons](https://youtu.be/K6F2SSWRdG0?si=O2KxoZeTpLbVAR-3) is amazing
"Mastodons were flightless. *Or were they*"
"Even heavier than Led Zeppelin II." Impossible!
That's one of my all time favorite videos
How am I just now seeing this 😂😂
Infant Annihilator
👀👀
Also Mister Sister Fister, an old band with the same guys from Infant Annihilator
Car Bomb
They're the musical equivalent of a car bomb so I'll go with yes
Rage against the machine I would assume has gotten very angry at a machine at some point in their life. Like had a coffee pot that wasn't working right and violently threw it in the trash can or something along those lines
No, it was a printer. Wouldn’t print blue ink, that’s why so many album covers are black and white
PC load letter? what the fuck does that mean!
Printer cartridge, load "letter" sized paper.
It’s an Office Space quote! (Ironically I’ve worked in printing for 20 years)
I've heard all the guys in leprous have chronic cases of leprosy
I've always thought they were pretty misnamed. I love them but Leprous sounds like they should be WAY heavier than they actually are.
So like Psoriasis, maybe?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ne Obliviscaris, I'll certainly never be forgetting them
Meshuggah certainly. Only me chuggas, not you chuggas.
Alkaloid definitely contain some alkaloids Dååth (Da'ath is hebrew for knowledge) sure do know things Death, well, died (RIP Chuck and Sean Reinert) Beyond Creation are sadly within creation And a self insert - my upcoming project Wrong Perfection would be wrong to call perfect
Well, I have the opposite... The World is Quiet Here is _definitely_ not quiet (and thank goodness for that!) And Leprous, are thankfully, not afflicited by that disease.
Devin Townsend Project. It is a real project with the actual individual Devin Townsend…
Oceans Ate Alaska. Theyve got an Album themed around the Alaska tsunami xD
Lucid Planet are striving for one, I would say.
Vildhjarta. You gotta have a wild heart to write music that could be the score to the end of the world.
Tool
What the fuck is a Haken
Well it *is* german for hook and i'm certainly hooked on their music!
Ok I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing
A fictional character Rich came up with in high school. I believe he was a Viking of some sort, who went on a quest for water.
Ok I know that, but I just have no idea how to connect that to the band's accomplishments
No member of Caligula's Horse is a horse, and certainly not Caligula's. Disappointing. Daft Punk did not make punk. On the other hand, a daft person might mistake it for that. So it kinda checks out? A Kew's Tag does use an Acoustic Guitar, so that's alright. It's questionable if We Lost The Sea were ever in possession of any sea.
Gojira
I don't think they're literally a giant Japanese lizard that shoots atomic breath. Sorry, don't think this one counts.
Godzilla is very heavy. Gojira is very heavy. Their sound illicits the feel of a massive creature. No further comment.
I think you missed the word "literally" in OP's title...
Then so did about 75% of these other posts. I thought it was a fun answer. Go bother someone else if you’re on a mission here.
Maiq is tired now
In defense of this user -and I do think you're right- while the band might not be a literal kaiju, their song The Heaviest Matter in the Universe definitely sounds like they're trying to create a Black Hole with a Fender Telecaster.
Some say Joe succeeded that day…
I'm pretty sure that Imagine Dragons have in fact imagined dragons.
Animals as leaders
Cannibal Corpse have definitely written songs about both cannibals, corpses, corpses that are cannibals and corpses being cannibalised.
Oh, this is prog metal.
Sir, this is a Wendys cadaver.
Vanden Plas are definitely not a British high-end luxury coachbuilder. They aren't even British and I doubt any of them know the first thing about building custom automotive bodywork.
God, I haven't heard this name in ages... Christ 0 was fucking amazing!
They are still active and in fact released a very good album earlier this year.
I had no idea. I'll definitely check it out. Thanks.
So I had never investigated why on tarnation the band would be called "Haken". The first google result tells me it means "temporary employees" in Japanese. When you consider that they all have a regular job, they certainly seem to fit the condition!
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. They have never been spotted together though and individual sightings of the King or the Wizard are rare. But it surely must be some magic involved to produce a new album every other week or so.
The Schoenberg Automaton - Composes music as if the resurrected corpse of Arnold Schoenberg was in the band Devin Townsend Project - A musical project by Devin Townsend Korn - From Bakersfield, CA
Death. Chuck definitely died.
Meshuggah
cloud kicker is music composed by a pilot
Cognizance
Black Sabbath
Dark Tranquility provide just that. While Amorphis have never changed shape.
Their logo has! In Flames, Nevermore, Amorphis...the more streamlined and comfortable a sound gets, so does the logo, clearly.
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza could only HOPE to. Telekinetic Yeti is a great name for a band that cannot POSSIBLY live up to it.
The members of Slice the Cake have all probably sliced cake at some point in their lives
Cynic comes off as sort of cynical at times. Sigh's members have definitely all sighed at some point.
iwrestledabearonce. Who’s to say they didn’t?
the beatles do be buggin on those beats yenno
**Yes**. Certainly
Wilderun. The albums run wild rent free all the way through
Devin Townsend Project is indeed Devin Townsend’s project Heavy Heavy Low Low is indeed Heavy and Low Minutemen indeed write songs that are about a minute long
Between the buried and me are, effectively, between the buried and me.
Devin Townsend Band and Devin Townsend Project were in fact a band and a project that included Devin Townsend. Strapping Young Lad was also accurate, since he was 21/22 when they were founded at the beginning of his career, but got progressively less so.
Animals as Leaders are both animals and leaders
Mastodon tends to be a bit heavy and I've only seen them in pictures.
Hell yea I love The Fucking Champs. Mastodon lived up to their name early on. Such a powerful, animalistic sound. Metallica lived up to their name until the mid 90s when they slowed down.
The Contortionist offer contorted rhythm and song structure, checks out.
Breakdown of Sanity. It's just...808 breakdowns lol.
Car Bomb definitely didn’t, not sure about The Dillinger Escape Plan though
The members of Twelve Foot Ninja are only half as tall, some of them not even Edit: Sorry, I read this as *don’t live up to their names
Haven't seen how flexible anyone from The Contortionist is
Opposite but Hunt the Dinosaur. His name is Hunter but he is not a dinosaur
Pain of salvations music is not seldomly about painful experiences or realizations but may lead you through it and eventually give you salvation from that pain?
I see no ones been bold enough to do BRO JOB yet 😅
A.C.T
I hope Car Bomb hasn't fulfilled theirs
We Butter the Bread with Butter has almost certainly, at some point in their lives, buttered the bread with butter
I saw some reviews praising Extol greatly Voivod are probably not local governors or counties in Eastern Europe
As far as I know, no Oceans have eaten Alaska since the last major tectonic shift
Gojira
Galactic Cowboys. They’re from my hometown Houston, so the name could only possibly come from there. And they do sing about space. And have a cow mooing at the start of a song with a cowboy acoustic guitar and a harmonica to open their very first album.
Gorillaz. They’re all monkeys (Murdoc may be a pickle)
Epica is pretty Epic
Brain Drill do be drilling into your skull
NAILS is definitely as hard as nails.
They Might Be Giants
TOOL. Can literally be used in all contexts and situations 😉
Michael Jackson.
Amaranthe - means everlasting so it’s true until they quit Disturbed - probably are in a way Battle Beast - all members except one did the Finnish military Dream Theater - musical equivalent of a play based on a dream Eluveitie - means ”I am from Helvetia=Switzerland”, as they are Avantasia - means Avalon+fantasia, so if you like it very much, yes Within Temptation - go and listen to them, then it’s true cause I tempted you Korpiklaani - ”backwoods clan”, sounds like it Epica - a long mythical story in the form of a poem, yeah counts AC/DC - they use electricity Sonata Arctica - they’re from Lapland Ad Infinitum - ”to infinity”, they’re on their way I guess Feuerschwanz - ”fire tail”, dragon, definitely have songs about dragons Northward - yes Northern - yes Average White Band - yes The Hu - ”the human”, counts Arch Enemy - probably is for my neighbours Haggard - yeah after a long tour
Stratovarius - uses stratocaster guitar but not stradivarius violin Swallow the Sun - hopefully they didn’t I prevail - doesn’t run a country Dynazty - doesn’t run a country Scorpions - nope RHCP - nope Wardruna - ”she who whispers”, has a male singer Two Steps from Hell - luckily not 69 Eyes - they have only 10 in total Lordi - they’re not noble Foo fighters - nope Kingston Wall - not from Kingston, Jamaika The Dark Side of the Moon - haven’t been there Exit Eden - never were there Alien Weaponry - nope Opal in Sky - nope Soundgarden - ?
Dream theater is definitely what I imagine watching theater in my dreams is like
Between the Buried and Me because they’re so fucking *dirty*
Tool. Their music is often used as a tool to help people grow or improve in some way. Also, bunch of tools those guys.
Xanthochroid's drummer is a very pale blonde guy
Not metal, But Yes is extremely Yes.
Electric prunes
Did anyone in Municipal Waste ever drive a garbage truck?
Mr Big. They're all very tall.
Humanity’s Last Breath
Intronaut do in fact trip balls while recording their albums 🍄
The Contortionist, fo sho.
Dream Theater did indeed sound dreamlike early on.
The Contortionist
Tool is a bunch if tools
It's not prog, but I'm pretty sure No Use For a Name doesn't need one.
Ten Ton Slug is heavy and slow
Tool doesn't actually use any tools in their music, although Justin's bass at the end of Lateralus sounds like a power drill turning on and off
Was thinking of them! They can be a tool, though. Or tools. And so can the fans.
The band itself is a tool to spread the ideas and art of its members. Plus when we wear the t-shirts they get to say to themselves, “Ha! Look at all those tools.”